--- title: Hulu Wants to Be the Cable TV Provider for Cord-Cutters description: Hulu will create a subscription service to stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels like ESPN and Fox News. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-05-02T14:53:28.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T10:48:48.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - Cable TV - Hulu - pubdesk - streaming - subscription - TV word_count: 331 canonical: https://money.com/hulu-cable-tv-subscription-service/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Mindy Kaling, whose show "The Mindy Project" streams on Hulu, appears at the Hulu 2015 Summer TCA Presentation.](https://img.money.com/2016/05/hulu-subscription-service1.jpg) *Mindy Kaling, whose show "The Mindy Project" streams on Hulu.* Hulu is throwing another hat into the ring of companies vying to win the online TV streaming contest. The company is developing a service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels, [the *Wall Street Journal* reported](http://www.wsj.com/articles/hulu-is-developing-a-cable-style-online-tv-service-1462150982). The new service—which Hulu confirmed would cost about $40 a month—would make the streaming service a competitor to traditional pay-TV providers and other new digital entrants. Hulu is similar to Netflix in that it currently offers on-demand programming from major networks, as well as some original programming. Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox, which are part owners in Hulu, are close to signing licensing agreements for many of their channels for the platform. The company hopes to launch the new Hulu service in the first quarter of 2017. ABC, ESPN, and the Disney Channel are expected to be available on the service, along with the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FX and Fox's national and regional sports channels. Though Hulu has begun preliminary conservations with other TV programmers, the service isn't expected to offer the hundreds of channels found in a traditional cable bundle. Hulu sees the service as an opportunity to appeal to the 10 million customers who already subscribe to its on-demand service, as well as a new audience of cord-cutters. TV viewers continue to nix their cable subscriptions (or never sign up for them in the first place) in favor of lower-cost alternatives. So far, satellite broadcast Dish network's Sling TV and Play Station Vue are the only companies that offer an online version of cable TV. Playstation Vue's bundles start at $30 to $40 a month, while Sling TV's basic package costs $20 a month. ***Read Next:* [How to Watch All the TV You Want Without Paying a Cable Bill](https://money.com/cable-tv-without-paying-bill/)** Other aspiring entrants to the space include Amazon, YouTube, Apple, T-Mobile and AT&T. 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